Agree with this. Looks about the most solid and complete of the contenders, aside from Cosgrove who's just too fat to get picked.Did he make runs again today? Haven't even seen, but I would've like for them to have gone with him, even though there are better credentialed players out there, I guess you'd say.
imoajdude: needs to push on to the 2000 post mark to cement his spot on cw
With Shane Watson still to return to a full bowling workload after his comeback from injury, Wright said an all-pace attack featuring Siddle, Hilfenhaus, Mitchell Starc and Mitchell Johnson - rather than one of the latter two - was ''a real option for them to think about''. ''I wouldn't play him [Lyon], but that's me. I'm always going to go the pace against the spin because I just believe that Bellerive hasn't spun for 40 years.''
BELLERIVE Oval's $440,000 surface upgrade is under fire following claims the Hobart pitch is a "shocker" and may not be up to standard for the first Test between Australia and Sri Lanka.
News Limited can reveal Australian cricket powerbrokers have privately discussed the state of the revamped Bellerive deck after a slew of low domestic scores in Sheffield Shield clashes this summer.
MICHAEL Clarke's mentor has backed his other protege, the resurgent Phil Hughes, to score 10,000 Test runs armed with a refined technique that will make him one of Australia's greatest Test batsmen.
If Watson isn't completely fit to bowl then four seamers becomes a real option at lots of grounds, Hobart included, but the squad they picked should rule it out because they only picked three serious seam options plus Johnson.Damien Wright joins Stuart MacGill and skidmark00 in gaggin' for a lyon droppin'
all star list of ****s, that.
Bellerive ringers: Hobart is the place for pace, says Wright
Meant to be showery for the whole Test too. Could be a brief one.
.You know what you'll get from test matches in Hobart - rain at some point and all the players wearing sweaters.